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Some maintain that impact of the Great Society programs was due in part to the American public not being uniformly committed to helping the poor. These people believe that Johnson’s view of the United States as one national community with a shared consensus on how to end poverty was mistaken. Congressional support for the Great Society was never very strong, and it lessened considerably as soon as Great Society programs became controversial.
Have we learned anything about what actually works to reduce poverty? No, we need to think outside the box. The European Social Democracies have done a better job with all our problems: teen pregnancies, drugs, alchohol, poverty and crime. Poverty is the mother and father of crime. Why not look at success and not be beligerant. I lived in Sweden and it is the Japan of Europe. All the machinery is new, there is no or very little poverty and the problems mentioned above. The wheather is a problem, but they even work around that.
A national health care system is a start. Our health care is third world status at this point. Humans have a right to health, not just people with money. They are the ones who are holding back with the slogan of no new taxes to stop anyone from thinking outside the box. The same people who argue against big government were in charge of Katrina relief, which became corporate handouts again.
The war in Iraq is causing big government spending, but you don’t hear people saying reduce that except non conservatives, which I would say is the Christian thing to do.
The big oil companies were restricted from doing business in Iraq before the war, now they are negotiating contracts. Was it a corporate war handout since they are benefiting while brave Americans are sacrificing. We should all pay more taxes for this war if we believe what we are fighting for is worth it then maybe our men and women in uniform will get the protection, equipment, and medical care they deserve. In stead the people who sold us the war, sent our soldiers into harms way are cutting the veterans benefits back here at home.
Have we learned anything about what actually works to reduce poverty? No, we need to think outside the box. The European Social Democracies have done a better job with all our problems: teen pregnancies, drugs, alchohol, poverty and crime. Poverty is the mother and father of crime. Why not look at success and not be beligerant. I lived in Sweden and it is the Japan of Europe. All the machinery is new, there is no or very little poverty and the problems mentioned above. The wheather is a problem, but they even work around that.
A national health care system is a start. Our health care is third world status at this point. Humans have a right to health, not just people with money. They are the ones who are holding back with the slogan of no new taxes to stop anyone from thinking outside the box. The same people who argue against big government were in charge of Katrina relief, which became corporate handouts again.
The war in Iraq is causing big government spending, but you don’t hear people saying reduce that except non conservatives, which I would say is the Christian thing to do.
The big oil companies were restricted from doing business in Iraq before the war, now they are negotiating contracts. Was it a corporate war handout since they are benefiting while brave Americans are sacrificing. We should all pay more taxes for this war if we believe what we are fighting for is worth it then maybe our men and women in uniform will get the protection, equipment, and medical care they deserve. In stead the people who sold us the war, sent our soldiers into harms way are cutting the veterans benefits back here at home.
